Join author Lauren Collins and Dr. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant for a special conversation about the 1898 Race Massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina, that will consider how descendants on both sides of the violence live with its legacy.

Lauren Collins was born in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1980. In They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy, Collins weaves together stories of four Wilmington, North Carolina, families over 125 years to create a full accounting of the long-term effects of the 1898 white supremacist massacre and coup and its critical role in subverting American democracy. Collins is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “When in French: Love in a Second Language,” which the New York Times named of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She lives in Paris with her family.

Dr. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant serves as the Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Director for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A proud native of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, she wholly and critically grapples with the profound questions that inform our understandings of gender, race, culture, and religious expression. She navigates the academy as a scholar-artist, and actively merges her life as an intellectual, musician and filmmaker, including especially her work as founder of ConjureGirlBlue Productions, a small media company specializing in nonfiction storytelling.

• Free and open to the public.

• Copies of THEY STOLE A CITY will be available for purchase and Lauren Collins will sign books after the event.

Join bestselling authors Kevin Maurer, Jason Mott, Randy Blythe, Brendan Slocumb, Shaun Assael, and Wiley Cash for book signing, beers, and conversation. These authors will also be sharing books by some of their favorite writers. Come meet them and peruse new titles for your summer TBR pile!

• Free and open to the public.

• Books by these authors will be available for purchase, as well as books they’ve hand-selected to share with you.

Join #1 New York Times bestseller Christina Baker Kline and Wiley Cash for an evening at Seabird in downtown Wilmington. Ticket includes wine, hors d'oeuvres, and a hardcover copy of Christina’s new novel The Foursome, a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true story: two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina—Kline’s own distant relatives—who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam. After purchasing your ticket, if you don’t want to wait until June 2 to get your copy of The Foursome please join Floodplain Books for an evening at Flytrap Brewing in downtown Wilmington at 319 Walnut St. on Tuesday, May 12 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. That evening you can pick up your pre-purchased copy of The Foursome, meet Wiley and Mallory Cash, enjoy some locally brewed beer and food truck offerings, and shop some of Floodplain’s favorite titles.

• June 2 at 6:00 pm at Seabird (1 South Front Street, Wilmington, NC

• This is a ticketed event. Ticket includes a hardcover copy of The Foursome, wine, and hors d'oeuvres

• Tickets must be purchased online from Floodplain Books and will not be available at the door.

Join Wiley and Mallory Cash, co-owners of Floodplain Books, for a pop-up book sale at Flytrap Brewing on Tuesday, May 12 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Come enjoy locally brewed beer, food truck offerings, and shop Floodplain’s favorite titles. If you’ve purchased a ticket to our sold out June 2 event with Christina Baker Kline please swing by Flytrap Brewing on May 12 to pick up your pre-paid copy of The Foursome.

• Tuesday, May 12 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Flytrap Brewing

• 319 Walnut St, Wilmington, NC 28401

• This is a free event. No ticket purchase required.